Sunday, January 6, 2013

City Council Corruption

Chin Has a Slush Transition Fund

Incumbent City Councilwoman Exploits Transition Funds(City and State) Councilwoman Margaret Chin, elected in November to a second term
representing lower Manhattan, raised more than $30,000 for her
inauguration expenses, which she appears to have used to pay bonuses to
her campaign staff and for an elaborate “fundraiser.”

__________________________________________________________________________________Absent Council Members

60% Foster

City Council’s worst no-show members
(NYP) Here’s one way to earn easy money — be elected to the City
Council and
don’t show up for work. Helen Foster (D-Bronx) takes the title as the
council’s biggest no-show — with a dismal attendance record of just 60.6
percent last year, according to...Following her on the “truancy” list
was Brooklyn Democrat Erik Dilan,
who showed up 73 percent of the time, records show. He did not respond
to a request for comment. Ruben Wills (D-Queens) and Joel Rivera
(D-Bronx) had attendance records of 73.3 and 73.7 percent, respectively.
Eric Ulrich — a Queens Republican who said he spent much of the year in
his Hurricane Sandy-battered district — had the fifth-worst tally,
attending 77 percent of his required meetings.

1/13/2013
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How Quinn, Seddio and Recchia Started Brooklyn's Jewish War

At
a meeting of the corrupt council redistricting committee which thinks secretly
moving sexual harasser Vito Lopez's house into a district he can win in, is done to
keep communities together. The political gang redistricting committee was
attacked at a recent meeting for starting a war between the Jews in Brooklyn
by creating a Russian council district by cutting the Growing in numbers
Orthodox Jews into 3 council districts. The deal was cut by Quinn
operatives in Brooklyn for Russian support in her race
for mayor, while insider Councilman Greenfield never spoke out against
it. After the revised district lines became public on Nov. 16, Brooklyn
Councilman David Greenfield tweeted that. “First thing that jumps out in
S. Brooklyn is creation of Super-Russian-American 48thCouncil District.”
At first look giving the Russian's a district is not an unreasonable.
But it is the political way the redistricting committee cut the district 48th
district that started a Jewish war. The Orthodox cut up by the redistricting committee was to give
Seddio and Recchia the district they wanted. A crime against the Jews was
committed, pitting Russian Jews against Othordox Jewish to accommodate a couple pols ability
to hang on in neighbors that have changed.

When Recchia Cut A
Third of the Russians Out of His District in 2003 to Help His Shot At
Reelecton He Was Called the Butcher of Brighton

In 2013 district on either side of the
Russian and Jewish
community were cut to allow Quinn strong supporter councilman Dominic
Recchia
to pick his successor in the 47th district and another expected
supporter of the
speaker Brooklyn Boss Frank Seddio to pick the new the new councilman in
the
46th distinct. The redistricting committee moved Russian Americans out
of
the Recchai 47th council district and put them into the 48th council
district. This gives Recchia the ability to pick his successor. Buzz is
Recchia will pick a non
Russian candidate. The Recchia, Seddio and Quinn changes
have caused a ripple effect of splitting the Orthodox Jewish into three
where
their voice reduced. The growing Orthodox community already has already
been split into Sampson, Parker, Golden and Staten Island's
Savino state senate districts. There congressional district is split
into Clark
and Jefferies districts.

Russian
Jews and Brooklyn Orthodox Who Have Similar Views Turned Against Each
Other to Save Old Time Pols and Help Quinn Win the Mayor's Race

With the loss of Weiner, Kruger and Filder Seddio's TJ club
needs elected officials. Seddio is expecting to support Assemblyman Alan
Maisel for the 46th and hand over assembly seat to a third generation Jefferson
Club member of the Partinow family in a special election. Seddio had
Quinn take out of the 48th Orthodox Jewish voters and put them into the 46h.
This gives the Seddio's council candidate, a white candidate a better chance to
win in what should be a minority district. Racial gerrymandering has allow
Seedio has keep power over the past 10 years as the community surrounding his
Thomas Jefferson club has turned increasing black. What the redistricting
committee should have did was make one district for the Russians and one of the
Orthodox and cut out the Seddio and Recchia who no longer have the population
to hang on to their district.

Several City Council Members testified
at a public hearing in Manhattan last night to contest the proposed
district lines. Councilmembers Rosie Mendez, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Gale Brewer, and Ydanis Rodriguez, as well as a representative from Jessica Lappin's
office, all gave testimony that was critical of the Redistricting
Commission's process and the lines it crafted. Residents of
Mark-Viverito's district came out in full force at the hearing,
reflecting her East Harlem community's strong sense of unity as a center
of Hispanic culture affectionately referred to as "El Barrio". Under
the proposed district changes, El Barrio would be fragmented into the
Council district of Inez Dickens and lose the representation of
Mark-Viverito, a longtime advocate for the neighborhood. Mark-Viverito
was greeted with a standing ovation as she approached the microphone to
speak and proceeded to lambaste the Commission for "rushing" to make
changes to other districts while leaving hers split up--a subtle shot at
the changes requested by Council Speaker Christine Quinn to prevent Assemblyman Vito Lopez
from running for City Council. "More likely than not the people here
today will overwhelmingly be here present because of there concerns
regarding District 8 and to inspire faith and trust in a truly
democratic and independent process," Mark-Viverito said. "It is unclear
to me why this level of public outcry has been largely disregarded by
the commission, which rushed to make changes to other districts while
leaving District 8 the same." The Commission will make revisions to the
district maps by January 23rd, with a decision on adopting the revised
map coming a week later. The City Council then has three weeks to decide
whether to vote on the new district lines or send them back to the
Commission for more hearings.(City and State)

1/7/2013After the Public Lopez Quinn Divorce the Illegal Redistricting Continues

It’s unclear whether the New Kings Democrats will get the lowdown on the
commission’s political machinations late last year. Only the
commission’s director of outreach, Jonathan Ettricks, will attend,
according to the president of the political club, Alex Low. Mr. Low does
not expect the commission’s executive director Carl Hum, who is in
charge of running the process, to to be present.

Also of interest to the New Kings Democrats: A district currently
represented by Brooklyn Councilman Steve Levin was packed with thousands
of new Hasidic Jewish voters likely to support
Mr. Levin. A prominent member of the New Kings Democrats, former
district leader Lincoln Restler, may well run in 2013 against Mr. Levin.
Mr. Restler’s odds of winning would decrease if the redrawn lines
stand.
One ally of Mr. Restler, Brooklyn Councilwoman Letitia James, who
would lose those Hasidic votes from her own district, wrote a letter to
the commission several months ago asking for those voters to be removed
from Mr. Levin’s district, according to two sources, but that effort has
apparently so far been unsuccessful.

Is the Redistricting Commission Taking A Dive on the Lopez District to Protect Quinn?. . . New Yorkers Will Never Know the Press Boycotts Story TodayThere
are some who think the commission change it mind to avoid Quinn
embarrassment. They think most of the councilmember like their new
district and support lopez.

Progressives Jobs4NY $$$ not
significantThe So Called “progressives” on the City Council Look the Other Way When Jobs4NY Endorsed One Of Their Candidates

Tenants PAC is declining to endorse incumbent Margaret Chin
in lower
Manhattan, though she made a career as a tenants rights activist. She
apparently declined to publicly condemn the real estate spending on
behalf of her candidacy.Defending Chin, Lander said, “I don’t think
Margaret Chin has signed on
to the REBNY platform…it is hard to know what the relationship is. I
pointed this out to Lander, who grew defensive of his fellow
Progressive. “I am not going to criticize Margaret Chin’s campaign,” he
said. “There are several races where Jobs for New York has supported
the front-running candidates in hopes that they will be grateful later.
There is no way to solicit or refuse the help, so who is to say whether
Margaret Chin even wanted it…”Councilwatch asked Lander, If you will
not draw lines against an
organization such as REBNY, whose position is anathema to that of the
Progressive Caucus, then what does it mean for there to be a Progressive
Caucus?CM Lander softened his tone: “I share the
concern implied in your question. I am against large independent
expenditures, and many of the battles I have fought for affordable
housing and in clusionary zoning--I am sure that REBNY would be on the
other side of them.So the Progressive Caucus may see Margaret Chin’s
refusal to denounce
REBNY’s support for her campaign as an embarrassment, but not a
significant one. And as Co-Chairman Brad Lander told
me, “I am sure that Margaret Chin will continue to be a committed member
of the Progressive Caucus.”